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Drilling Through Hard Boards

133 Political Stories
By Alexander Kluge
Series: German List
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Drilling Through Hard Boards by Alexander Kluge explores the intersection of history and everyday life through a series of interconnected narratives. The book delves into political, social, and cultural reflections, weaving together personal stories with broader historical events. Kluge's work is renowned for its unique storytelling style, offering profound insights into human experience.
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Drilling through Hard Boards is a kaleidoscopic meditation on the tools available to those who struggle for power.

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Max Weber famously described politics as 'a strong, slow drilling through hard boards with both passion and judgement'. Taking this as his inspiration, Alexander Kluge brings readers yet another literary masterpiece - a kaleidoscopic meditation on the tools available to those who struggle for power. The Drill certainly embodies intelligent tenacity as a precondition for political change. But what is a hammer in the business of politics, Kluge wonders, and what is a subtle touch?

Eventually, we learn that all questions of politics lead to a single one: What is political in the first place?

Kluge masterfully unspools more than 100 vignettes, through which it becomes clear that the political is more often than not personal. Politics are everywhere in our everyday lives, so along with the stories of major political figures, we also find here the small, mostly unknown ones: Elfriede Eilers alongside Pericles, Chilean miners next to Napoleon, a three-month-old baby beside Alexander the Great.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780857427014

Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 September 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd

Contributors:

  • Translated by Wieland Hoban
  • Translated by Iain Galbraith
  • Contributions by Reinhard Jirgl
  • Translated by Wieland Hoban

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 408

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Alexander Kluge Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Series: German List

About the Author

Alexander Kluge (b. 1932) is one of the major German fiction writers of the late twentieth century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement. His awards include the Italian Literature Prize Isola d'Elba (1967), and almost every major German-language literary prize, including the Heinrich von Kleist Prize (1985), the Heinrich Bll Prize (1993) and the Schiller Memorial Prize (2001). He has also received the Georg Bchner Prize (2003), Germany's highest literary award.

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